Upon reading the ruling, it is clear even the judges have found it unusual the degree to which BA has allowed control of what would normally be management decisions to the Unions through the multiple collective agreements. These agreements leaving the door wide open for employees to take action in the way of Malone, et. al.
If you think about it realistically, it is absolutely absurd that employees should even contemplate dragging their employer through the High & Appeal Courts and, God forbid, possibly even the Supreme Court over what any sensible person would see as crew complements being a management decision.
I think with the advent of MF that BA will not only be looking to more streamlined CC employment contracts but will also not enter into anything like the depth, complexity and associated granting of IFCE operational control through any future MF union collective agreements.
BA will have more then learned its lesson on this one and these old style and unnecessarily detailed (now that BA has seized back control) agreements will fade away with the legacy CC themselves.